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Visit this week's newly published MP3 files on Romantic Circles' Poets on Poets audio archive: Cleopatra Mathis reading William Blake's "Tyger, Tyger" and "A Poison Tree," both of which include audio commentaries by Mathis.

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Poets on Poets, Romantic Circles' new and growing MP3 audio archive, is pleased to announce this week's publication, Roger Fanning reading John Clare's "Trespass." There are links to a biography of Fanning and to the text of Clare's poem, and you can either listen on the Web page or download the MP3 file to your computer or iPod (or other portable player). Watch this space for next week's reading, or sign up at the site to receive weekly e-mail updates.

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The new Jerwood Center recently opened in Grasmere near Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum. Its purpose is to offer scholars access to its collection of manuscripts and books. See this story in the New York Times for 21 June (password required).

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The Romantic Circles Poets on Poets audio archive publishes weekly MP3s--contemporary poets reading romantic poems. You can listen and download the files for use on your computer or iPod, and follow links to a brief biography of the reader and to the text of the poem he or she is reading. This week, we've posted Richard Fammerée reading Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and last week Elise Paschen reading "To Autumn" went online. You can follow the link from the site to be added to the mailing list if you'd like to be notified when new weekly installments are made available.

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The 14th Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference
March 23-26, 2006
The University of Florida

Call for Papers

This year's theme, "(Re)Collecting British Women Writers," encourages interdisciplinary approaches to writers of the period, with a special interest in issues related to archival scholarship and memory and how those issues manifest themselves in collections, exhibitions, and canons.

We are very pleased to announce that our keynote speakers will be Talia Schaffer (CUNY-Queens College), Carolyn Steedman (University of Warwick), and Lynne Vallone (Texas A&M University).

We encourage proposals focusing on but not limited to:

Collections and Archives:

- Politics of display and archiving
- Textual and physical collections
- Intersections of written and visual arts
- Collecting in the (pseudo)sciences
- Exhibiting the empire
- The family: children's culture
- Collections and archives in the classroom

- Colony and the empire
- Nation, nationality, and the body
- Life writing: journals and letters
- Travel narratives
- Gendered intertexualities
- Subjectivity, agency, and authorship
- Family as a microcosm or metaphor
- The politics of historical representation
Please submit 1-2 page abstracts for individual presentations and panel proposals (including the name of a moderator) by September 30, 2005. Please do not include any identifying information in your abstract.

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Romantic Circles is delighted to announce the release of Poets on Poets, a major new audio archive devoted to gathering recordings of Romantic-period poems read by contemporary poets. The inaugural readings, just released, include Robert Pinsky reciting Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale." as well as other recitations you can see below. In the preface to the archive, Jerome McGann reflects upon "Recitation Considered as a Fine Art."

We invite you to visit Poets on Poets and download the sound file into your iPod or MP3 player, or use the files on your classroom. For more information about forthcoming readings/readers or to listen to the recordings just released, visit the Editions section of Romantic Circles.

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1. See the new at Romantic Circles page for two new volumes in the Praxis series, Romanticism and Opera and Legacies of Paul de Man.
2. Call For Papers: Romantic medicine

Nottingham Trent University and the Midland Romantic Seminar invite 20 minute papers on the subject of Romantic Medicine, for a one-day symposium, to be held in the English Dept. of NTU, on Thurs. 1st December 2005. Plenary speakers will be Neil Vickers (author of Coleridge and the Doctors) Sharon Ruston (author of Shelley and Vitality). Others to be announced. Please contact Tim Fulford < timfulford@tiscali.co.uk >

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1. See the new at Romantic Circles page for two new volumes in the Praxis series, Romanticism and Opera and Legacies of Paul de Man.
2. Call For Papers: Romantic medicine

Nottingham Trent University and the Midland Romantic Seminar invite 20 minute papers on the subject of Romantic Medicine, for a one-day symposium, to be held in the English Dept. of NTU, on Thurs. 1st December 2005. Plenary speakers will be Neil Vickers (author of Coleridge and the Doctors) Sharon Ruston (author of Shelley and Vitality). Others to be announced. Please contact Tim Fulford < timfulford@tiscali.co.uk >

Two competitions, open to all: an essay and a poem. £3,000 IN PRIZES The winners’ work will be published. The essay can be on any aspect of Keats’s or Shelley’s work or life, and should be of 2,000 - 3,000 words, including quotations. Preference will be given to entries showing originality of thought and written in a clear and accessible style. All sources must be acknowledged. The poem (which may be a narrative) must be original, unpublished and not a parody. It should focus on a Romantic theme associated with ‘ghosts’. It may be of any length up to 50 lines.

Other conditions of entry:

1. Two copies of your entry should be sent to Jill Gamble, KSMA Competition
Secretary, School of English, The University, St Andrews, KY16 9AL, Scotland. Please enclose an SAE if you want your entry to be acknowledged. Copies of entries cannot be returned.

2. All entries must be received by 30 June 2005. Prize winners and a runner-up in each category will be notified in August. There will be a presentation ceremony in London in October. The winners will be announced at that time on the website of the Keats-Shelley Memorial House in Rome,http://www.keatsshelley-house.org.

3. You may enter both categories but only once. There is a fee of £5 sterling for a single entry, £3 for a second entry in the other category. Payment must be enclosed, made by cheque, postal order or international money order in favour of the Keats- Shelley Memorial Association, or by sterling bank notes. All first-time serious entrants who are not already Friends of the KSMA will become Honorary Friends for one year (subscription normally £12) receiving the annual Keats-Shelley Review, free newsletters, invitations to events, etc.

4. All entries must be typed or wordprocessed on A4 or foolscap paper, and attached with a paper clip to a typed sheet giving the following: your name, address, a contact telephone number, the title of your essay or poem, and how you heard about the prize. Your entrance fee should also be attached. Please do not use staples.

5. Essays and poems must be in English and your original and unpublished work, and must not have been submitted to us in a former competition. Copyright remains with you as author, but your entry will be deemed to give
consent to first publication in journals nominated by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and The John S. Cohen Foundation.

6. The submission of an entry will be deemed to indicate full acceptance of the above conditions of entry to the competition.

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35th ANNUAL CONFERENCE of
THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
4-6 JANUARY 2006
ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE, OXFORD, U.K.

CALL FOR PAPERS
The conference will feature plenary addresses by Ludmilla Jordanova (Cambridge), George Rousseau (Oxford) and David McCallam (Sheffield). We invite proposals for individual papers and especially for full panels of three (or, exceptionally, four papers) on any aspect of the long 18th century, not only in Britain but throughout Europe and the wider world. Such proposals might relate, inter alia, to architecture, art, curatorship, history, international relations, literature, music, politics, science, society, teaching practice and the eighteenth century outside Western Europe and North America. Please submit a 200-word abstract of the proposed paper or panel (including names of panel-speakers and summaries of panel papers), via the BSECS website at http://www.bsecs.org.uk. Papers should be 20 minutes long and should be read in English or French. Presentations in other languages are acceptable so long as transcripts, in English or French, are available for the audience.

The deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals is 30 September 2005. All enquiries regarding the academic programme of the conference should be addressed to the Programme Co-Ordinator, Dr. Matthew Grenby (academicOrganiser@bsecs.org.uk). You will be notified whether your proposal has been accepted by 21 October 2005. In the case of scholars travelling from outside the U.K. we shall endeavour to reach decisions earlier in order to facilitate travel arrangements. The deadline for conference registration will be 12 November 2005. To attend the conference without giving a paper, request an application form direct from the Venue Organiser, Dr. Chris Mounsey (cmouns@aol.com). You can also download the registration form and find out more about BSECS from our website (http://www.bsecs.org.uk).

Five bursaries of £100 each will be available for graduate students whose papers have been accepted and who are registered for a higher degree at a U.K institution of higher education. In addition, accommodation costs and the conference fee will be waived for up to five scholars whose papers have been accepted and who are based in nations whose scholars cannot normally afford to attend conferences in Western Europe. Applications for bursaries, including a curriculum vitae and an indication of other sources of financial support, should reach Dr. Matthew Grenby by 28 October 2005 < academicOrganiser@bsecs.org.uk >.

St. Hugh's College is set in fourteen acres of self-contained grounds and is surrounded by lawns, borders and mature trees, making it one of the loveliest hidden delights of Oxford. The College is within ten minutes walking distance of Oxford city centre.